Users will be able to easily set their preferred fonts for their own language if they don't like the Fedora defaults.

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Fonts-tweak-tool using the libeasyfc backend provides an easy way to customize desktop fonts for one's own language.

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fonts-tweak-tool with libeasyfc backend provides a more easy way to customize fonts for user's desktop.

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This feature provides a tool for customizing fonts per language on desktops using fontconfig. The user requirements of desktop fonts are diverse, no single configuration can satisfy all user requirements.

The fonts-tweak-tool GUI provides users a way to specific their preferred font families for different languages.

User can select preferred fonts for sans/serif/monospace/fantasy/cursive for any particular languages they choose,
and user fontconfig rules will be generated to override fonts only for those languages.

This will make the Fedora desktop more convenient to use for international users.
Many users want to customize the fonts for their own languages, but currently this requires knowledge of fontconfig font configuration which is also error prone.
With this tool, the users can customize fonts for their local needs, without needing to learn or understand the details of fontconfig conf files.

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